[cvsnt] Re: Maybe a hint for the "Unable to rename file" problem?

[John Peacock]

Brandt, Oliver / ELE - BS wrote:
> As you can see not only CVS has this problem but Subversion, too.

But CVSNT didn't have this problem before recent versions, since it was 
fixed in exactly the same way that Subversion fixed it: a sleep/retry loop.

The core problem is that the basic design of the NTFS filesystem 
architecture (and the Win32 libraries for accessing it) doesn't operate 
efficiently on lots of small temporary files with renames.  Whether you 
ever have a problem is very sensitive to the actual machine you are 
using (and its complete environment including patchlevel, memory, other 
processess, which AV software is in use, etc).  It's a Mandelbug:

	http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/mandelbug.html

or possibly a Heisenbug (same site).

John